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carolinarider09
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« on: May 20, 2020, 09:27:53 AM »

Larry Sanger, the founder of Wikipedia says that the project has abandoned neutrality and is now “badly biased.”

https://districtherald.com/wikipedia-founder-says-the-project-has-abandoned-neutrality-policy-is-badly-biased/
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2020, 11:24:24 AM »


I've edited wiki articles before. I think there's a bunch of people who
live to edit the wiki. I'd avoid the wiki for anything that involves
"opinion". I like to look up teevee shows or movies there, though...

I once wrote a uuencode uudecode script using the information on the wiki
page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding

If you google "homosexual agenda wiki", you'll find out that the phrase
"homosexual agenda" is a disparaging term only deplorable people would use.

If you google "barack obama wiki", you'll find out that Obama's presidency
has generally been regarded favorably, and evaluations of his presidency
among historians, political scientists, and the general public place him among
the upper tier of American presidents.


If you want to learn more about how batteries work, the wiki is probably a good
choice... many other things not so much...

-Mike
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Serk
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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2020, 11:43:06 AM »

Yup, I've got a few edits under my belt (Even some pics that made their way to getting published in the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I thought was kinda cool) and agree.... For flat facts it's great.

Kinda like Snopes. If it's something that has no possible tinge of politics or SJW'ism at all, probably good to go.

However in this day and age it seems EVERYTHING has tinges of SJW'ism and/or politics...
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